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JAKQ Dengeki Tai

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
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Genre Tokusatsu
Created by Shotaro Ishinomori
Written by Shōzō Uehara
Kuniaki Oshikawa
Hirohisa Soda
Susumu Takahisa
Hikaru Arai
Kimio Hirayama
Shukei Nagasaka
Directed by Kōichi Takemoto
Atsuo Okunaka
Kimio Hirayama
Katsuhiko Taguchi
Minoru Yamada
Starring Yoshitaka Tanba
Heizan Itou
Mitchi Love
Yuusuke Kazato
Hiroshi Miyauchi
Narrated by Toru Ohira
Music by Michiaki Watanabe
Country of origin Japan
No. of episodes 35
Production
Producer(s) Takafumi Hagino
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Susumu Yoshikawa
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) TV Asahi
Toei Company
Release
Original network TV Asahi
Original release April 9 – December 24, 1977
Chronology
Preceded by Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
Followed by Battle Fever J

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai (ジャッカー電撃隊 Jakkā Dengekitai?, lit. J.A.K.Q. Blitzkrieg Squad) is the second Super Sentai series. It aired from April 9, 1977 to December 24, 1977. It was created by Shotaro Ishinomori, and ran for thirty-five episodes. Toei Co. Ltd also gave it the title The Jackers, for international distribution.

Iron Claw is the leader of a global criminal empire, known simply as "Crime". With a network of wealthy and influential sympathizers, and employing an army of faceless, leather-masked thugs and cyborg assassins, Crime seeks to become the most powerful mafia organization in the world.

To combat this threat, ISSIS, the International Science Special Investigation Squad is formed. ISSIS organizes its forces around the world to battle Crime, including Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo's ISSIS branch commander, Daisuke Kujirai, proposes a radical experiment to aid his forces in Japan. Taking the code name "Joker", he recruits four young test subjects to undergo his cyborg enhancement project — multi-talented athlete and Olympic Gold medalist Goro Sakurai, disgraced boxing champion Ryu Higashi, critically injured policewoman Karen Mizuki, and clinically dead and cryogenically sustained oceanographer Bunta Daichi. Surgically altered and given various bionic enhancements as well as energy manipulation powers, the four youth begin their mission to destroy Crime as a crime-busting quartet code-named J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai. Later on, Joker leaves and Sokichi Banba, a master of disguise and a cyborg, becomes their new boss, known as Big One.

ISSIS, (the International Science Special Investigation Squad (国際科学特捜隊 Kokusai Kagaku Tokusō Tai?)), was formed to combat the international threat of Crime across the globe. The Tokyo ISSIS branch was led by Kujirai Daisuke (codenamed Joker), a brilliant bionics specialist and engineer, who initiated the J.A.K.Q. project and recruited the various team members. He was married and is known to have had a young daughter. He was later tasked to head ISSIS’s advanced engineering branch and thus replaced by the flamboyant Banba Soukichi (Big One).


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